Monday, June 11, 2012

Mr. Ataxic: "I've been having a lot of balance problems. My walking is off, and I'm clumsy."

Dr. Grumpy: "Let's go out in the hallway, and let me watch you walk."

Mr. Ataxic goes out in the hallway, and I follow him. Stepping out from behind my desk, I discover (too late) that my shoelace is caught in one of the chair's rollers. As I walk the chair comes with me. I lose my balance and fall, just barely missing Ed. Then the whole chair crashes down on top of me. As the chair flies up it pulls my shoe off and sends it flying under the desk.

Mr. Ataxic: "Yeah, doc, kind of like that, but not as spectacular. Holy shit, are you okay?"

I am reminded of rounding in hospital several years ago, on elderly man, who was post surgery and not feeling well. While I, was leaning over him, to do exam, he decided to use me as leverage to pull himself up. it ended up with fulcrum example delux - me flipped over rail, partially on top of him , trying to avoid any post surgical complications by not landing squarely on him with my skirt shimmied up and my face beaming red .... . his immediate comment: "doc, this does not make me feel any better, but i am glad my wife is not here"

Once we were pre-oping a patient for a OS enucleation, the anes doc comes in to ask some questions. When he goes to grab his pen out of his scrub pocket it goes flying across the patient and hits him in his OD. Good thing his eye was closed or the surgery would of taken twice as long.

I get the tail of my lab coat caught in those rollers all the damn time.... and on door handles, pet fur roller hooks, the backs of the receptionists' chairs... good thing tomorrow is my last day in practice before I join corporate pet food!

Catching up on months of your posts while the fam is asleep....nearly woke them up though with all my snorting and laughing. Had tears streaming down my face! I totally feel like I did about two hundred sit ups too! ....love how the pt said, "not as spectacular" hahaha....still laughing...

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